Mung Bean Liquorice Soup

Why people make this soup

On a sweltering summer day, Nourilo finds 300 ml of mung bean soup wonderfully cooling — mung bean is a classic summer ingredient, traditionally used to clear heat, ease toxins and drain water. Paired with liquorice and simmered as a tea, it is traditionally regarded as helping the body clear a range of plant-based toxins. Nourilo once knew someone who ate a slightly green-skinned potato and felt their mouth go numb with chest tightness and nausea; on his suggestion they sipped mung bean and liquorice water and the discomfort eased after a couple of bowls. Still — if you’ve eaten or absorbed too much of anything toxic, you must go to hospital. Never take a risk.